What’s Sheinbaum’s beef with ex-President Zedillo?

What’s Sheinbaum’s beef with ex-President Zedillo?

Mexico is witnessing an unprecedented public political clash between a former president and the country’s current leader.  The dispute began after the magazine Letras Libres published an essay by former president Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (1994-2000) titled “Mexico: From Democracy to Tyranny.” In the piece, Zedillo delivered a scathing critique of the policies of the governing party, Morena, which sparked a public debate between President Cl…

Zedillo should also be remembered for having his hands stained with blood from the massacres perpetrated in his six-year period. The post Zedillo, the doctor's death first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text in sinembargo.mx

The favorite villain for twelve years was Carlos Salinas de Gortari, before being supplied by Felipe Calderón, starting in 2006. With the exception of Luis Echeverría and Enrique Peña Nieto, they have all passed through the political gallows with more or less fury. But none of them with as much anger as Ernesto Zedillo, after the article and the interview that the former president published in the two magazines most hated by the regime: Letras L…

This new campaign, initiated by the opposition and led by the former president of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, is allowing President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo to remind people why they chose to elect López Obrador and then her to preside over the country, that is, why they preferred the so-called Fourth Transformation. It reminds them of what people were saying in 2018: ‘I’m not only not going to vote for them (called PRI, PAN, PRD, businessmen, union…

Ernesto Zedillo warns of threats to democracy in Mexico

Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Member of Club de Madrid, shares an open letter denouncing recent judicial and electoral reforms in Mexico, which he warns severely undermine institutional independence and the core values of democracy. In his analysis, Zedillo highlights how these reforms weaken democratic checks and balances, threaten minority rights, and jeopardize the integrity of the rule of law. His message is a call to safeg…